Laryngeal Cartilages
The tube that is immediately posterior to the trachea.
What is the esophagus?
I am a dome-shaped, muscular, and membranous structure that is the primary muscle for inhalation.
What is the diaphragm?
I am cranial nerve #10.
What is the Vagus?
The pressure that builds up under adducted vocal folds before phonating.
What is subglottic pressure?
The study of the function of muscles and structure of the human body is . . .
What is physiology?
The only cartilage that contains elastic cartilage and is leaf-shaped.
What is the epiglottis?
What is the muscular ring located at the junction of the pharynx and the esophagus and act like a valve during swallowing.
What is the Upper Esophageal Sphincter (UES).
The movement of the VFs when inhaling is called . . .
What is abduction?
The pressure that builds up above the glottis that influences loudness, pitch and spectral shape.
What is supraglottic pressure?
This is a primary component of Mr. Krupke's voice research and involves directing the sound and vibrations to the front of the mouth and face.
What is forward focus?
The largest cartilage in the larynx. Sometimes I can be seen in the front of someone's neck.
What is the thyroid cartilage?
The muscle that connects the thyroid cartilage and the cricoid cartilage.
What is the cricothyroid muscle?
The movement of the VFs called when phonating is called . . .
What is adduction?
The primary function of the epiglottis.
What is to protect the airway?
SOVT stands for ...
What is semi-occluded vocal tract?
We are small pyramidal-shaped cartilages and are the primary controllers of VF position and tension.
What are the arytenoid cartilages?
I am the only muscle capable of actively opening the vocal folds.
What is the PCA (posterior cricoarytenoid?
The laryngeal nerve that supplies motor fibers to most of the intrinsic muscles of the larynx is called . . .
What is the Superior Laryngeal Nerve?
The structure above the larynx that is part of the vocal tract.
What is the pharynx?
I am an acoustic model that explains how the human voice produces sound and how this sound is shaped into speech.
What is the Source-Theory Model?
The only cartilage that forms a complete ring.
What is the cricoid cartilage?
I am the muscle mass that forms the bulk of a vocal fold.
What is the vocalis muscle?
I supply fibers for sensory and motor control for the upper larynx.
The Superior Laryngeal Nerve?
There are 3 types of breathing. Name them.
What are clavicular, thoracic and abdominal/diaphragmatic?
During each cycle of phonation, air rushes between the VFs, creating negative pressure, which causes an inward pull that brings them back together.
What is the Bernoulli Effect?